The 75th Anniversary 2018-2019 Season Masterworks Series
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE 2018-2019 SEASON ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.
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THE PAUL YERGENS AND VIRGINIA YERGENS ROGERS FOUNDATION
MASTERWORKS SERIES
All concerts conducted by Andrew Constantine, Music Director
Saturday, October 6, 2018
OPENING NIGHT WITH RENÉE FLEMING
Also part of The Robert, Carrie, and Bobbie Steck Family Foundation
Great Performers Series
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Renée Fleming, soprano
One of the world's most beloved and celebrated singers, Renée Fleming opens the 75th Anniversary Season with a wide-ranging program beginning with Richard Strauss's ravishing Four Last Songs, plus popular songs on the second half. The concert will begin with the world premiere of an overture for the Philharmonic’s Anniversary Season, by American composer Joel Puckett.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
THE RACH 2
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Lise de la Salle, piano
STRAUSS — Don Juan, Op. 20
STRAUSS — Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Suite
RACHMANINOFF — Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
The brilliant young French pianist Lise de la Salle will play Rachmaninoff’s popular Piano Concerto No. 2, with its blizzard of notes and luxuriant string melodies. Two showpieces by Strauss display the Philharmonic's virtuosity.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
BRITTEN'S WAR REQUIEM
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus
IPFW Chorus
Fort Wayne Children's Choir
BRITTEN—War Requiem, Op. 66
The concert will be performed nearly 100 years to the day after the armistice of World War I. Benjamin Britten’s powerful masterpiece juxtaposes the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass with contemporary texts illustrating the ravages of war.
Saturday, January 12, 2019
PETROUCHKA
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Andrew Wan, violin
DUKAS — L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
CHAUSSON — Poème, Op. 25
RAVEL— Tzigane, rapsodie de concert, for Violin and Orchestra
STRAVINSKY — Petrouchka
Colorful French works, including The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a work popularized in Walt Disney's 1940 classic film Fantasia. Plus Petrouchka, Stravinsky's brilliant ballet burlesque about a playful and very naughty clown.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
BIZET'S CARMEN
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus
Members of the Fort Wayne Children's Choir
Soloists
BIZET — Carmen
The world's most popular opera. Carmen seduces a hapless corporal and a dashing bullfighter before meeting her tragic demise. Bizet’s bewitching melodies, including the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song,” and stunning projected visuals make this semi-staged production an ideal introduction to the thrill of opera.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
BARBER AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
7:30 pm. | Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW
Robert deMaine, cello
BUTTERWORTH — The Banks of Green Willow
BARBER — Cello Concerto, Op. 22
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS — Symphony No. 5 in D major
Robert deMaine performs Barber's Cello Concerto, a work of musical fireworks and aching lyricism. The concert concludes with Vaughan Williams’ most popular symphony, a pastoral romance that sings with emotional strength and spirituality.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
BEETHOVEN'S 9TH: AN ODE TO JOY
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus
Fort Wayne Children's Choir
Soloists
ADAMS — On the Transmigration of Souls
Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Beethoven’s 9th has inspired audiences with its monumental scale, intensive technical demands, and the utopian idealism of its "Ode to Joy." It is stunningly paired with American composer John Adams’ musical commemoration of the victims of 9/11, a work described as "a place where you can go and be alone with your thoughts and emotions."
Satuurday, April 6, 2019
SIBELIUS 2
7:30 p.m. | Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW
TOWER — Made in America
PUCKETT — Short Stories - Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
SIBELIUS — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Sibelius was Finland’s greatest composer and a national hero. His most famous symphony is full of soaring melodies and folk-like references. Joel Puckett’s Concerto, an infectious intertwining of eight short vignettes, receives its Indiana orchestral premiere at this concert.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
THE FANTASTIC SYMPHONY
7;30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Stewart Goodyear, piano
BERLIOZ — Roméo et Juliette: Queen Mab Scherzo
GRIEG — Piano Concert in A minor, Op. 16
BERLIOZ — Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Berlioz's psychedelic symphonic portrait tells the tale of an artist's self-destructive passion for a beautiful woman. It is full of obsessions and dreams, ecstasy and despair. Grieg’s concerto was an instant success, a work of charm, teeming with vitality and perfect simplicity.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
DVORÁK AND JANÁČEK
7:30 p.m. | Embassy Theatre
Paul Huang, violin
DVORÁK — Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53, B. 96
DVORÁK — Slavonic Dances
JANÁČEK — Sinfonietta
With its military bands, dazzling fanfares, and 13 additional brass players, Janáček's Sinfonietta sounds as fresh today as it did at its premiere. Beginning the program are two seminal works by fellow countryman Antonín Dvořák, whose lively, folk-like sensibilities defined the language of late-19th-century Romantic music.